Review: New Riff Wheated Bourbon 6 Years Old
Based in Newport, Kentucky — just a stone’s throw from the Ohio River, and right across from Cincinnati — New Riff has never been averse to playing with mash bills and grain types. Its latest special release whiskey honors that ethos, delivering a wheated bourbon from a notably uncommon recipe: 65% corn 18% floor-malted wheat…
Review: La Pulga Tequila (Updated 2026)
Tequila continues to take the country by storm but perhaps nowhere more so than in Texas. Three Ft. Worth-based entrepreneurs are getting in on the action with another addition to the growing La Pulga, a tequila distilled and bottled in Jalisco, Mexico but proudly born in “Cowtown.” Or so goes the press release. The name…
Review: Sapporo Premium Non-Alcoholic Beer
Also known as Sapporo 0.0%, Sapporo Premium Non-Alcoholic is the N/A version of the Japanese classic, more or less anyway. Unlike a lot of non-alc beers, it doesn’t particularly taste like classic Sapporo, attacking with a very lemon-forward quality that threatens to overwhelm everything before it ever gets going. A spritz of apple cider adds…
Review: Dogfish Head Distilling x Rolling Stone American Single Malt Whiskey
Dogfish Head‘s distilling arm continues its growth with this odd collaboration, produced in collaboration with Rolling Stone magazine. (Mind the distinction: The Rolling Stones, the band, have their own collab with Jose Cuervo.) As is the norm for Dogfish Head, this isn’t some boring old sourced whiskey. Rather, it’s a 5 year old American single malt…
Review: Coors Whiskey Blended American Malt 8 Years Old
It’s unclear if the brand is dropping its old Five Trail and Barmen 1873 monikers, but Golden, Colorado’s iconic Coors beer brand continues to ramp up its distilling arm, now releasing products under what seems like a wholly obvious name: Coors Whiskey Co. Coors Whiskey Co. Blended American Malt Whiskey is an 8 year old…
Review: Bourbon de Luxe 7 Years Old Rum Cask Finish and 8 Years Old
Some bourbon brands are born in the distillery. Others are born in the marketplace, shaped by the people who sell them, the companies that carry them forward, and the circumstances that determine whether they survive. Bourbon de Luxe belongs to the latter category, and its story stretches back more than a century, through Prohibition, the…
Review: Wines of Iterum, 2026 Releases
Joe Dobbes is an icon in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, whose wineries Dobbes Family Estate and Wine by Joe have been staples of the region for decades. Iterum is Dobbes’s self-proclaimed “retirement project,” a prestige brand founded in 2019 that draws on Dobbes’s deep knowledge of Oregon terroir and features numerous single vineyard expressions in its arsenal.…
Review: Pegasus Vodka and Eau d’Or
We previously reviewed Pegasus Distillery’s meteorite-infused vodka, but today we circle around to try their more grounded, original vodka along with the citrus focused liqueur Eau d’Or. Both are made at the Meursault, Burgundy-located distillery, which is still fairly young, having been founded in 2021, but they are drawing attention by making exciting products with…
Review: Whiskeys of Locke + Co.
Colorado-based Locke + Co. — with a plus, not an ampersand — appears to be following in the footsteps of other mountainous distillers by forging its own path. Focusing on bourbon and rye releases, the busy operation has a singular trick up its sleeve that it leans on for all of its releases to date:…
Review: Blue Note Cherry Wood Cask Bourbon
Blue Note Bourbon was initially launched in mid-July 2018 by B.R. Distilling Company in Memphis, Tennessee. As an Owensboro resident, Blue Note has held a special place in my appreciation of my city’s whiskey story. During the early days of whiskey distilling’s revival in Owensboro, O.Z. Tyler was giving consumers very young bourbon that had…
